Aretha Franklin Dressed In Blue For Last Public Viewing

♦ Final ride is a beauty: Talk about how Detroit rolls - check out the ivory 1940 Cadillac LaSalle Funeral Coach that also carried the Rev. C.L. Franklin (her dad) in 1984 and Rosa Parks in 2005.

Aretha Franklin's casket is to lie in repose at her father's church on Thursday ahead of a tribute concert in her hometown Detroit and what will be a "jubilant" star-studded funeral on Friday.

Right at the front of the queue was Gale Smith, 56, a nurse who had helped to care for the singer in hospital. Abdul "Duke" Fakir said he was honored that his famed Motown group was invited to perform.

They queued down the street and around the block, swaying to Franklin tracks or breaking into song and dance, with a steady flow trickling inside. "We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family".

She was one of those people where no matter what you said, no matter what glowing positive thing you said about her, it would be an understatement.

She was suffering from pancreatic cancer and was in a grave condition from last few years. "Just natural changes in wardrobe that a queen would make". If there's one thing Aretha taught us, it was to be original. "When a lot of people got rich and famous, they left Detroit".

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